MickEbeling

Mick Ebeling

Founder of the Not Impossible Foundation

Mick Ebeling likes tackling the impossible – it’s fun for him. Ebeling is the Founder and Executive Producer of The Ebeling Group (TEG) — an international production company and creative think tank, representing some of the world's leading design/directing collectives. Created by TEG was the Not Impossible Foundation, an emerging non-profit organization comprised of thinkers, dreamers, and doers. By fusing imagination and technology, Ebeling and his team are developing creative solutions to real-world problems.  His reputation for consistently producing ground-breaking work stems from his unwavering ability to identify and nurture innovators in production and design.


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Mick Ebeling likes tackling the impossible – it’s fun for him.

Ebeling is the Founder and Executive Producer of The Ebeling Group (TEG) — an international production company and creative think tank, representing some of the world's leading design/directing collectives. Created by TEG was the Not Impossible Foundation, an emerging non-profit organization comprised of thinkers, dreamers, and doers. By fusing imagination and technology, Ebeling and his team are developing creative solutions to real-world problems. He believes in the collective good for the collective gain.

The Not Impossible Foundation (NIF) was created on the heels of the successful creation of “The Eyewriter”, an invention Ebeling and his wife Caskey invented after developing an inspiring friendship with a renowned street artist who suffered from ALS. The EyeWriter is a practical, low-cost invention that allows people suffering from neuromuscular diseases and paralysis to draw and communicate again using only their eyes. Earning numerous awards and noteworthy press, The EyeWriter was featured in Time Magazine’s “Top 50 Inventions of 2010".

TEG has been creating things like James Bond main titles, Grammy nominated music videos, commercials for Fortune 100 brands, and Cannes Lion winning branded content. Ebeling’s reputation for consistently producing ground-breaking work stems from his unwavering ability to identify and nurture innovators in production and design. TEG work encompasses clients and venues like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Sundance Film Festival, Diesel, Coca-Cola, Sony Pictures, Nike, among many others.

What’s next for Ebeling? Not even he knows, but it’s likely to be something everyone else thinks is impossible.

  • 1. Good News, It's Impossible!

    The fact that something is impossible is good news. It's your chance to be first at something. No one gets on the top podium for doing something that has already been done. Once you realize that EVERYTHING was possible at one point in time, it's incredibly freeing and motivating.

  • 2. Your Actions Speak so Loudly, I Can't Hear What You Say

    Tempt lives by the saying "Be the change you want to be." We are constantly being measured and tracked - voluntarily and involuntarily. Google, credit cards, Foursquare, cell phones... we live in a society that has built in measurements wherever we go. If we want to make a change, we have to live that change and be that change. As college students, and with the web, FB, twitter, etc., you must understand that there has never been a freer or more powerful time where your voices can be heard as easily and as loudly as they can right now. If you truly believe in something, then you have to act on it, and live it every day.

  • 3. Being Scared is Good

    You know that feeling you get in your stomach when you are just not sure how to do something, but you know it has to be done? It's scary. It's uncomfortable. It's probably "impossible" for you. And it's right where you need to be. Being scared and insecure on how to do something is exactly where I was when my wife and I first conceived the Eyewriter. We had no clue how to do it; we just knew it had to be done.